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AGII ANARGYRI (Municipality) KASTORIA
KASTORIA (Prefecture) GREECE
The prefecture of Kastoria is situated in the western end of West
Macedonia. It is adjacent on the north with the prefecture
of Florina, on the south, east and south-east with the prefectures of Grevena
and Kozani, on the south-west
with the prefecture of Ioannina
and on the west with Albania.
The soil of the region is mountainous and the climate is continental
with cold winters and hot summers. The temperature presents great variations between
winter and summer, and during winter it is often below zero so the lake waters
are frozen. According to the latest census the population of Kastoria comes up
to 51.935 inhabitants.
This text (extract) is cited June 2003 from the Prefecture
of Kastoria tourist pamphlet.
KASTORIA (Town) MAKEDONIA WEST
The ancient 'Orestiada'
is located between two mountains, Vitsi
and Grammos, in Western
Macedonia.
In the middle of a circular plain, which is shaped from the above
mentioned mountains, is located the famous lake
'Orestias' and above this peninsula which just into it, is the city of Kastoria.
It is a city of 30.000 inhabitants, closely connected to its legendary
past and its great History, which is full of life and progress. One can reach
Kastoria by bus from Athens
- Larissa - Kozani
- Kastoria, Athens - Meteora
- Grevena - Kastoria, Thessaloniki
- Florina - Prespes
- Kastoria, Thessaloniki -
Edessa - Kastoria, Thessaloniki
- Veria - Kastoria -Yugoslavian
borders (Niki) - Florina
- Kastoria (and by way of Vitsi), Igoumenitsa
- Ioannina - Kastoria.
All these routes offer the traveler unforgettable sights with alternative
views of scenery, lakes, mountainous passes, forests and picturesque villages.
One can also reach Kastoria from Athens
by air.
This text (extract) is cited June 2003 from the Municipality
of Kastoria tourist pamphlet.
ARGOS ORESTIKON (Ancient city) KASTORIA
Argos Oresticum (Argos Orestikon), the chief town of the Orestae,
said to have been founded by Orestes, when he fled from Argos after the murder
of his mother. (Strab. vii. p. 326.) Strabo places these Orestae in Epirus; and
they must probably be distinguished from the Macedonian Orestae, who dwelt near
the sources of the Haliacmon, on the frontiers of Illyria. Stephanus B. (s. v.
Argos) mentions an Argos in Macedonia, as well as Argos Oresticum; and Hierocles
also speaks of a Macedonian Argos. Moreover, Ptolemy (iii. 13. § § 5, 22) distinguishes
clearly between an Epirot and a Macedonian Orestias, assigning to each a town
Amantia. Hence the Macedonian Argos appears to have been a different place from
Argos Oresticum. The former was probably situated in the plain of Anaselitza,
near the sources of the Haliacmon, which plain is called Argestaeus Campus by
Livy (xxvii. 33; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 121, who, however, confounds
the Macedonian Argos with Argos Oresticum). The site of Argos Oresticum is uncertain;
but a modern writer places it near Ambracia, since Stephanus calls the Orestae
a Molossian people. (Tafel, in Pauly's Realencycl. vol. i. p. 738.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
KELETRON (Ancient city) GREECE
A town of Orestis in Macedonia, situated on a peninsula which is surrounded
by the waters of a lake, and has only a single entrance over a narrow isthmus
which connects it with the continent. In the first Macedonian campaign of the
Romans, in B.C. 200, the consul Sulpicius, after having invested this place, which
submitted to him, returned to Dassaretia, and from thence regained Apollonia,
the place from which he had departed on this expedition. (Liv. xxxi. 40.) The
position is so remarkable that there is no difficulty in identifying it with the
modern fortress of Kastoria. The lake, which bears the same name, is about six
miles long and four broad. The peninsula is nearly four miles in circumference,
and the outer point is not far from the centre of the lake. The present fortification
of Kastoria consists only of a wall across the W. extremity of the isthmus, which
was built in the time of the Byzantine empire, and has a wet ditch, making the
peninsula an island. In the middle of the wall stands a square tower, through
which is the only entrance to the town. The ruins of a parallel wall flanked with
round towers, which in Byzantine times crossed the peninsula from shore to shore,
excluding all the E. part of it, still divide the Turkish and Greek quarters of
the town. In A.D. 1084 Alexis I. took Castoria (Kastoria), which was defended
by the brave and faithful Bryennius. (Anna Comn. Alexius, vi. p. 152.) The accurate
description of Castoria, as Colonel Leake remarks, by Anna Comnena shows that
no great change has occurred since that time. Forbiger supposes that one of the
numerous towns which derived their name from Diocletian [Diocletianopolis] afterwards
stood upon the site of Celetrum, but the positions given by Procopius (Aed. iv.
3), and the Itineraries, to Diocletianopolis are at variance with this statement.
On the other hand, Celetrum has been identified with the KelaiWidioW of Hierocles.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ORESTIS (Ancient area) KASTORIA
Orestis. Orestae (Orestai, Hecat. ap. Steph. B. s. v.; Thuc. ii. 80; Polyb.
xviii. 30; Strab. vii. p. 326, ix. p. 434; Plin. iv. 17), a people who are shown
by Thucydides (l. c.) to have bordered upon the Macedonian Paravaei, and who
partly, perhaps, as having been originally an Epirote tribe (Steph. B. s. v.
terms them a Molossian tribe), were united with the other Epirots, under their
prince Antiochus, in support of the expedition of Cnemus and the Ambraciots
against Acarnania. Afterwards they were incorporated in the Macedonian kingdom.
In the peace finally granted to Philip, B.C. 196, by the Romans, the Orestae
were declared free, because they had been the first to revolt. (Liv. xxxiii.
34.)
Orestis (Orestis, Ptol. iii. 13. § § 5, 22; Steph. B. s. v.; Liv.
xxvii. 33, xxxi. 40) or Orestias (Orestias, Strab. vii. p. 326), was the name
given to the district which they occupied, which, though it is not named by
Livy and Diodorus among the countries which entered into the composition of
the Fourth Macedonia, was probably included in it, because the greater part,
at least, of Orestis was situated to the E. of Pindus. This subdivision of Upper
Macedonia is represented by the modern districts of Gramista, Anaselitza, and
Kastoria. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 305, vol. iv. pp. 121--124.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
KELETRON (Ancient city) GREECE
A town in Macedonia on a peninsula of the Lacus Castoris. It is probably to be identified with the later Diocletianopolis.
ORESTIDA (Municipality) KASTORIA
DIOKLITIANOUPOLI (Byzantine settlement) KASTORIA
KASTORIA (Town) MAKEDONIA WEST
KASTORIA (Town) MAKEDONIA WEST
ORESTIDA (Municipality) KASTORIA
KASTORIA (Prefecture) GREECE
In the following WebPages you can find an interactive map with all the monuments and museums of the Prefecture, with relevant information and photos.
KASTORIA (Town) MAKEDONIA WEST
A titular see of Macedonia.
Castoria seems to have replaced Celetrum.
The Byzantine chroniclers describe it as a strong fortress. In the
tenth century it must have been occupied by the Bulgarians. About 1350 it was
given up by the Emperor Joannes Cantacuzene to the King of Servia,
and in 1386 it was captured by the Turks.
As early at least as the reign of Basil II, Castoria was the first
suffragan see of Achrida. The see still exists for the Greeks and has been made
a metropolitan. Some ten Latin bishops are known from the thirteenth to the fifteenth
centuries.
Castoria is today [1908] the chief town of a mutessariflik in the
vilayet of Monastir, with about 10,000 inhabitants -- Turks, Greeks, and Bulgarians.
It is also the see of a Bulgarian bishopric with 2224 families, 32 priests, and
22 churches.
S. Petrides, ed.
Transcribed by: Gerald M. Knight
This extract is cited June 2003 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
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